what's behind curtain number three? its another knitted minion!

There's not really too much to say about these minions now, I've used the same pattern (my own) and needles for every single one. so its basically the same size and shape. after the first one I tweaked the pattern a bit but its finally perfect now!

As usual I did a custom initial on the pocket! And added little tiny hands and feet! Boy are they fiddly to sew!

I think the one eyed versions are far cuter! I don't know what it is about things with one eye but they are just adorable!

In other news, things have been pretty hectic at the moment with it being the summer holidays, I gave my sadly neglected garden a tidy up yesterday (weeds grow so fast!) only to discover that the bloody slugs had been at my marigolds! The sweet peas however are stronger than ever before , trust me i had to pull the little swine's apart to tie them up!

We've got some baking planned for next week, and lots more visits from friends and family, and we've got two weddings and a hen do coming up! its literally all go at the moment.

Projects wise, I've got one baby project on the go (which will come with a tutorial), one hand patchwork project, one machine patchwork project and I've started looking at knitting the dinosaur I got free with my lets knit magazine! And then ill be posting another tutorial on how to make baby bibs complete with pattern (can you tell I'm using my friends pregnancy as an excuse to make tutorials!)  

And that's it really!

Apart from the cleaning, which I had forgotten is some more ore fun with a small child! (insert copious amounts of sarcasm here)

Much Love

Frankie

xxx

Custom ukulele

I cannot believe I haven't posted this project yet! I mean seriously I must be off my game becuase this was so dammed hard to keep secret. So without further ado! Do you remember at Christmas when I was saying I had a lot of projects I couldn't blog about becuase they were gifts? 

Well this is the custom ukulele I made for my bother in law for Christmas , quite simply I brought a ukulele and decorated it! My brother in law is very musical, in fact he's the very same brother in law who plays in the band hybrid nine who's album artwork I have done! He's also pretty hard to buy for, he doesn't read so it's usually something vaguely musical or haribo for Christmas! 

His tastes tend to lean towards to abstract side of art, so I tried to too! 

I put scales on the side (ya know it's a musical pun) 

And added this quote to the side

"Behind every favourite song, there is an untold story" 

But the backs my favourite part, there's a old skool tattoo style woman and a banner and at the top there's a little music note/anchor design. 

And there's a number 1 because it's my first custom piece.

All in all I love it and I hope he did too! (I think he did these are the pictures he shared on Facebook afterwards anyhow) 

In other news , I finished my dress! And I ironed it ready to take photos! And then realised I hadn't taken a strapless bra out off the bedroom so I couldn't, photograph it! Poor Mr knitwit is working nights so nipping in the retrieve it during to day (when he goes to bed) was not an option! 

I've even made a slip to wear underneath it, although I think it's an awkward length for a slip so I might just be a hussy and go without! 

Much love

Frankie

Xxx